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    <h1 class="article-title">How to Build A &#34;Usable&#34; PC</h1>

    
    <span class="article-date">2019-06-20</span>
    

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<h2 id="choice-of-hardware">Choice of Hardware</h2>

<p>Here is my hardware list:</p>

<pre><code>CPU: i5-9400f 
GPU: MSI RTX VENTUS 2060 
Motherboard: MSI B360M
Memory: DDR4 2133MHZ 16GB * 1 
Storage:Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB + Intel 760P NVMe M.2 256G + Seagate 2T 3.5 HDD
</code></pre>

<p>How to choose the hardware? In my opinion, you could just google the keywords, for intance, &ldquo;Deep Learning PC set-up&rdquo;, &ldquo;Electronic Engineering PC set-up&rdquo; and you can find the those pretty good set-up list. If you are a computer idiot, you can just follow the list, or you can just customize a list based on the &ldquo;template&rdquo; (I called those lists &ldquo;template&rdquo;)</p>

<h2 id="why-i-choose-this-set-up">Why I choose this set-up</h2>

<p>Basically, this set-up is for my final year project (FYP) and the most vital point is that the graphic card: I need to use the CUDA to do the parallel computation which means I need a NVIDIA&rsquo;s card. and at that time (June, 2019), the RTX super is not on sale, I chose RTX 2060 instead. I don&rsquo;t need a powerful card like RTX 2080 Ti since I can access to the deparment server and it provides me a NVIDIA TESLA P100.</p>

<p>Also, RTX 2060 can runs most of the games in Steam, Blizzard or Epic. (<strong>May be the Gamming is the main reason to buy this PC</strong>)</p>

<p>Storage is inportant, SSD is neccessary these days, and HDD can provides a large storage to store my datas and caches (and games).</p>

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